Our project was a two person narrative parkour race through the stages of a person’s life. One person raced from birth to death, while another raced backward through time from death to birth.

The stages of a person’s life ( child, teen, young adult, middle age, elderly) were represented as architectural forms (slide, stairs,desk,stage,park bench) and through a path of feet/hand markers that also mimicked the movement of each stage’s age.

Our goal was to invigorate a discarded public space that was dominated by a monument to 19th century nationalism. We worked with local residents to help design a space that was playful, spoke about time and had social structures that could be used by a wide age range.